Day 2: Our First Aventure!

Today kicked off with breakfast in the downstairs living area followed by a lecture from Christina till lunchtime. Once we had lunch, everyone packed their backpacks and we drove up the road for our 5 mile walk along the coast. It was absolutely gorgeous! Kelsie, Brittney and I walked together for the majority of the hike and had a wonderful time! They are really nice and hopefully we can stay in touch once after this ends. When we returned 4 hours later, we unpacked and chilled out until dinner time. Shana's birthday was Friday, so we had cupcakes after. When we finished up, Kathy had a team building activity for everyone to try; it consisted of tying strings to your hands but you had to cross the yarn with your partners and untangle it without reovinh the string from your wrist. It was really hard, but Brittney and I figured it out eventually; then we laughed at how easy it was. The temperature is wonderful; however, tomorrow when we go inland and it can get pretty warm and humid, but with band camp under my belt - I'm sure I can manage just fine. The only complaint that everyone has had are the mosquitoes! No matter how much bug spray you put on they can always find you! Luckily for us, Tom seems to attract them all away; however, he isn't that thrilled. Here are some of the pictures I took on today's hike!

This is Lycos, he is 2/3 Husky and 1/3 German Shepard. He is a lot like Mattie only slightly taller, larger paws, really soft and a lot more mellow!!!This is of a small lake that has formed due to a couple high tide and the sun just broke threw the clouds. This was a mailbox we stumbled upon along the way. It belongs to a house that sits right on the shore. Inside there was paper and we wrote down who we were, what we were doing and took a picture of us that we can e-mail them. It was pretty neat!
This is Chris showing us some droppings left by porcupines! The one on the left is my roommate Brittney and on the right is Kelsie. We snuck some M&M's in while Kathy takes a picture in the background. A fallen tree blocked our path but it didn't lower our spirits; Lauren has made it through and Brittney is close behind!
Here is a frog we saw in one of the many small lakes we found along our way.

This is also a pond, I took because I like the clouds in it's reflection.

This is a footprint left behind by a raccoon.

The lovely view from the rocky shore.Another view from shore, this is of the tall trees in Nova Scotia.

Welp, I am super tired. I will try to post something every night, but there may some exhausted nights in my future. So I am off to bed, tonight we opened our non-broken window so there is a bit off breeze. Hope everyone is doing well, goodnight!